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Q: Will we get a discount at Amazon?
No, because we are planning on continuing to run Zappos as a separate company with our own culture and core values. And we’re not going to be giving the Zappos discount to Amazon employees either, unless they bake us cookies and deliver them in person.
"Tony Hsieh’s letter to all Zappos employees, regarding the Amazon acquisition of Zappos (although he “would prefer the headline ‘Zappos and Amazon sitting in a tree⦒)”